Piles of chairs, piles of bicycles and piles of plastic bags. That is the best way to summarize three of the Nuit Blanche installations that remained on display for a week or so after the 5th of October.
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First, the pile of chairs
Garden Tower, by Tadashi Kawamata of Hokkaido Japan
in front of Metropolitan United Church
“As if each person who sat on these chairs left a piece of himself, the work evokes the beautiful and utopian spects of the myth of the Babel Tower, a humanity speaking with one voice and engaged, with solidarity, in the building of a better future.” (from the sign accompanying the installation)
Garden Tower chairs in front of Metropolitan United Church on Queen Street East.
Looking upward from inside the pile of chairs. There was a pathway that ran through the base of the tower.
new found habitat for one of Toronto’s four legged residents
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Then the pile of bicycles:
Forever Bicycles by Ai Weiwei at Nathan Phillips Square
bicycles in front of city hall
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one bike amongst many
Nathan Phillips Square on the wet and foggy morning after Nuit Blanche.
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Last, the pile of plastic bags:
Plastic Bags by Pascale Marthine Tayou of Cameroon
interior, Bell Trinity Square
The plastic bags hang from the ceiling like a big blob. Like confetti, or bits of coloured paper, ready to be dropped on the people below.
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as I walk Toronto 